Method and apparatus for montgomery multiplication
Granted: April 25, 2006
Patent Number:
7035889
A method and apparatus for Montgomery multiplication comprising adding at least one multiplicand bit from a first multiplicand add multiplexer in a main array of a Montgomery multiplier with at least one modulus bit from a first modulus-add multiplexer in the main array; adding at least one modulus bit from a first modulus-add multiplexer in a quotient pre-calculation array with at least one modulus bit from a second modulus-add multiplexer in the quotient pre-calculation array;…
Random number generator
Granted: October 11, 2005
Patent Number:
6954770
A random number generator comprising an oscillator with an output signal dependant upon a random source, a sampling device to sample the output signal from the oscillator to obtain a sampled oscillator output, and a fixed frequency clock driven linear feedback shift register (LFSR) communicatively coupled to the sampling device via a digital gate to receive the sampled oscillator output, and to provide a random number at an output of the LFSR. Additionally, the random number generator…
Apparatus and method for repairing logic blocks
Granted: March 1, 2005
Patent Number:
6861865
An apparatus is described comprising: a set of logic blocks configured to perform designated data processing functions; a set of redundant logic blocks also configured to perform the designated data processing functions; and a logic block selector module to replace one or more of the set of logic blocks with one or more of the set of redundant logic blocks according to specified logic block replacement conditions.
Interface for a security coprocessor
Granted: September 7, 2004
Patent Number:
6789147
A method and apparatus for processing security operations are described. In one embodiment, a processor includes a number of execution units to process a number of requests for security operations. The number of execution units are to output the results of the number of requests to a number of output data structures associated with the number of requests within a remote memory based on pointers stored in the number of requests. The number of execution units can output the results in an…
